DiNapoli: Change spent fuel storage at Indian Point

11:32 PM,
Mar. 11, 2013

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Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is harnessing the clout of the state's $153 billion pension fund to urge three nuclear power companies, including Indian Point's owner, to change how they store used nuclear fuel.

Shareholders in Indian Point's Entergy Corp., as well as the Dominion and NextEra companies, will vote this spring on asking those companies to move spent fuel from pools to dry casks.

The Common Retirement Fund, the pension system for state and local governments outside of New York City, owns stock in the three companies. The state fund held 717,028 shares of Entergy as of March 1. They ...